The Christian Brothers are drawing up plans to “bombard heaven” for the miracle needed to canonise their founder, Blessed Edmund Rice.
The brothers want to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth on June 1 2012 with a “vigorous campaign of prayer” which, they hope, will culminate in finding the second miracle needed to declare him Ireland’s next saint.
Brother Donal Blake, the Dublin-based postulator for the Cause for Canonisation of Blessed Edmund, said brothers at their headquarters in Rome are drawing up proposals to encourage people in 32 countries to pray for healing miracles through his intercession.
